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JACK L. RUBY - PRELIMINARY DIAGNOSTIC IMPRESSION:
Neither his friend Senator nor his sister recalls his
making any remarks about Oswald. His sister commented, "The
kids and Jackie bothered him much more than anything." He was
in and out of his apartment and his sister's on Saturday. He
showed his sister the pictures of the "Impeach Earl Warren"
poster. He phoned a lawyer friend, Stanley Kaufman, and talked
with him about the poster and the We Isman advertisement. He lay
down at his sister's but could not fall asleep. He told his sister
he had been unable to sleep Friday night.
On Sunday he left his apartment around ten-thirty, telling
his friend that he was going to send the telegram, would go to
the club and would walk his dog. The patient says that when he
left his apartment he stopped on the street and talked with a
neighbor. He parked his car, with his dog in it, at the Western
Union Office and sent the telegram a little after eleven. The
patient says that it had been announced that Oswald was to be
transferred from the Police Station to the County Jail around
ten a.m. On walking out of the Western Union Office, he saw a
crowd around the Police Station. His curiosity led him over
there, he thought that State's Attorney Wade or Captain Fritz
might be talking to newsmen and he would be able to qet a scoop
for one of his friends at the radio station.
Suddenly, much to his astonishment, Oswald appeared,
between two guards. "He had a very smirky expression, he looked
cunning and vicious - like an animal - like a Communist. I felt
like I was looking at a rat. I don't recall if I saia, 'You
killed my President', or if I said anything."
The patient professes a hazy memory of the actual event.
He does not know why he did not shoot more than once, nor
whether he was wrestled to the floor in the elevator or in the
areaway. He thinks he recalls saying, "You don't have to beat
my brains out, I'm Jack Ruby." He says, "It flashed through my
mind, 'Why are all these guys jumping on top of me? I'm a very
known person with the police and everybody else. I'm not somebody
who is a screwball.' After I was brought upstairs in the ele-
vator I felt relieved."
The patient states that he always carried a loaded pistol
in his right hip pocket and that all nightclub owners and many
restaurant owners in Dallas carry such weapons. He states that
on that Sunday morning he had about fifteen hundred dollars on
him. He insists that the shooting was due to a sudden momentary
impulse and that the thought of killing Oswald had never occurred
to him prev i ousIy.
The patient now professes a realization of the wrongful-
ness of his act, but there is no evidence of any real guilt
feeling. When I asked him what his thoughts and emotions were in
regard to Mrs. Oswald and the Oswald children, he looked suddenly
greatly pained, almost as though I had struck him, and exclaimed,
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Dallas (Tex.). Police Department. [Preliminary Diagnostic Impression of Jack Ruby by Manfred S. Guttmacher], report, January 7, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338321/m1/7/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.